Velocity is not the only measure we should care about.
August 16, 2015
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2 min. to read
Thought experiment: clean code is one of the least important things for a company.
June 16, 2015
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2 min. to read
Use the Net Promoter Score to measure pride in your products and organisation
October 14, 2014
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3 min. to read
Want to buy merch for your startup? Buy the best gear you can afford.
October 13, 2014
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2 min. to read
Blindly using agile tools doesn't make you automatically agile.
October 12, 2014
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3 min. to read
Don't just copy what Google does unless you're willing to commit Google-sized resources as well.
October 10, 2014
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3 min. to read
Companies need more than Recruitment in their Human Resources team if they really want to make a great culture.
October 9, 2014
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2 min. to read
A talk by Marty Cagan at Etsy's Code as Craft in Brooklyn.
July 15, 2014
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17 min. to read
The best people in tech know that they don't know everything.
July 9, 2014
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1 min. to read
Innovate to reduce complexity.
June 3, 2014
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7 min. to read
Great teams practice kaizen.
May 13, 2014
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2 min. to read
What does passing QA actually mean?
May 12, 2014
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1 min. to read
Being a code craftsman means writing automated testing.
May 11, 2014
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2 min. to read
Help people build new things, instead of bullying them for trying.
March 18, 2014
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1 min. to read
Don't write giant documents before you start testing. Start testing and capture your documentation in the right way.
February 26, 2014
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5 min. to read
What's the right balance between coding and managing for an engineering manager?
February 17, 2014
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2 min. to read
When do organisational challenges grow into issues and then unsolveable problems?
February 17, 2014
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6 min. to read
How the project management triangle describes the tradeoffs when building a product.
August 24, 2013
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2 min. to read
Don't estimate a feature as having no (zero) points. Everything has value, effort and complexity.
January 31, 2013
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3 min. to read
Great product development should focus on solving a single problem that your customer(s) have and solving it completely. Have a laser focus on what you want to achieve and be really nitpicky. Polish that one thing until it's seamless.
August 3, 2012
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6 min. to read
The best way to do product development is fix one problem and fix it completely. Ship that. Then fix another problem.
July 8, 2012
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1 min. to read
Don't measure testers on the amount of bugs they find.
December 3, 2011
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1 min. to read
It's become common to blame project failures on a lack of testing. There's more to it than that.
November 19, 2011
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2 min. to read